Advertising apparatus.



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nenknownthetr,minnen Lisp, leinzen Yoli the United "Stades, and aresident ot- New York, in the county of NewYork and 5 State of New York,have invented certain new and nsefn'l improvements in AdvertisingApparatus, lof which thefolloivingf' isi-'e specification. n A AMyinvention consists of an automntic'y adio vert'isin-g apparatdswherein and whereby -a nn Inber of sign or advertisi ng cnrtainso rodsare separately carried over a drm-n' which? snpports them, so thateaehsueeessive enr-tain is broughtto viewand held in View a 4snlfrix5cient length ofl time for the reading of the sign or advertisementprinted thereon or attached thereto;

The invention also-consists in the employment of lreversely operatingarms, which 2o carry the curtain-rods and curtains over the drum-.,andin the combina-tion therewith of a suitable 'motor and gearing.

The invention also eonsis-tsof the'construetion, arrangement, andcombination of parts,

z5 all as hereinafter described andclaimed.

In' the accompanying drawings, to which reference ,is made 'and Awhichform a part of this specilicationhFignre 1 isa frontelevation ofmynew'advertising-machine'as it apan enlarged detailed-view of the upperportion of thek apparatus rwith the front removed and showing 'the'motor and .Sivit-ehi as ein p'leyed in Figs-9 and 10;- Fig.; 3ds aneleva35 tion of one' side of the frame 'of the machine, showing" thepreferred arrange-ment and op eration of the motor and mechanismoperated by the motor. Fig. 4 is -a`sectional elevation of the same.Fig. 5 is a detailed vie-W of the reciprocating" rod or rack, the.latter beingin position to operate an 4electrie switch or cutout. Figs'.and 7 are enlarged end viewsof l the drum or cylinder over which thecertains of one end of the drum slotted to allow the curtains to beremoved and replaced on the drum.- v Fig. v9 isa side' elevationl of oneside' which receive the pla-tes or flangesV 7,

pears complete,witha glassf-ront. Fig. '-2 is' are carried. Fig. S is anenlarged side View in tesamen-gs, A representen afnemen-'f1 tallfront orcasing. This may be a hinged door providedY with a glass front B.y It isse cured to a main frame comprising side np- 5 5 ,rights 2 Sand top andbottom pieces it 5. The n side prights) 8 are provided withcorresponding keepers or Ways G 6, preferably inclined,

l which rrr'e's'ecur'ed to the end-plates 9, as'shown in 6o Figs. and 7,and project at the ends of the drum 8,- so that these keepers and platesnot only hold` the drum firmly in place in the Yfram-e, but, allow thedrum to be readily re-l moved from and replaced in theframe. The 65 saidplates ror flanges 7 are secured tothe end plates 9 by solderingorbracing the edges of the flanges to the said end plates of the drnin,or' theymay be secured by any other wellknown means.

The drun-l S is closed at its ends by plates 9.9', which are set inwarda short distance from the ends of the drum, so that the Aends or eil-geeof the drum constitute anges 10 l0, on which the cnrtain-rodsll"2A l2are held and 75 on which they move one by one around the drum.- Thec'urtain'dod-sl l2 are by preference held on the flanges l0 4by means ofy hooks or small open loops formed by folding over the ends of the rods.The lower side of 8o the drum is' by preference flattened and incllined,as shown in'Figs. 6 and '7, in order to hold the curtain-'rods in linewith one another at V'the bottoinof the drum and in order also that theWhole number of curtain-rods will 85 slide ldown by-gravity as rapidlyas they are taken up and carried around the drum. A retaining and'letting-oft' device ljis employed at oneor bothv ends of vthe drum forletting oil' the curtain-rods' singly and hold- 9o '1n-g back,meanwhile, the row of rods in the rear, as illustrated in Figs. G and 7,which deyvice jin its preferred t'orrn of construction will1oe'hereiut'tfter described. v

Thed-rum 8 is providedwithacentralshaft 9 5 14, which projects throughthe end plates 9 at eaclf 'end of the drum, and said-drum is alsoprovided With anothe r-shat' t 15. The latter shaft 15 is provided at ornear its center rwith one or more carriers' for' the'curtains,xoopre'fera'bly in theform ot friction-rollers 16,

the periphery or peripheries of which project A. tirren-gh'gslots'17'sli'g`2htly beyond the snrface n ofthe drum '8, so 'that when acurtainlrod is.

lifted up past the carriers 16 the movement of the said carriers movesthe fabric along to a point where it will drop bodily back of the drum.The carriers 16 are by preference roughened or provided with a coveringof soft india-rubber, and to increase the friction on the fabric Iprefer to employ the weight or counter rollers 18, whichrest upon thecarriers 16 or u pon the curtain while in transit. The weight or counterrollers 18 are supported by a frame or bail 19, so that they areeasilylifted up from contact with thecurtain-rods 12 and permit the saidrods to readily pass under them or between them and the carrier-rolls16.

The shaft 14 is provided with the carrierarms 2O 20, one at each end ofthe drum,which operate to carry the curtain-rods and curtains up overthe drutn. from the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 7 to theposition shown in full lines in Fig. 6, and they carry up a curtain-rodand curtain with each sweep. During the return motion of the arms20--that is, during the return from the position shown in Fig. 6 to thatshown in dotted lines in Fig. 7-the carrier-rollers 16 revolve inthe'direction shown by the arrowin Fig. 7-that is, while the arms 2Oturn back toward the right the carriers 16 turn toward the left. At allother times the carriers 16 may remain at rest.

The movement of the arms 20 for carrying the curtain-rods up over thedrum is accomplished by a suitable motor and gearing. I have here shownand I preferto use an electric motor, though a weight or spring motormight be used, particularly for a continuously-operating apparatus; butwhere intermittent action is desired, depending upon the pressing of abutton, I design in all cases to use an electric motor, which may besupplied with current from small batteries or connected toelectric-light service, if convenient. In the type of mechanism shown inFigs. 3, 4, and 5 the motor 21 rotates without reversal, while in Figs.2, 9, and 10 the motor itself is reversed for the back-and-forth actionof the arms 20.

In Figs. 3, 4, and 5 a train of gearing 22, connected with a. gear-wheel23 on the powershaft 24, slowly rotates a shaft 25, provided with acrank 26, and this crank by means of a connecting-rod 27 reciprocates arack 28, held in bearings or a way 29. The rack 28 engages with agear-wheel 30 on the end of the shaft 14, journaled in the drum 8, sothat with the reciprocation of the rack 28 rotary reciprocating actionis imparted to the shaft 14 and to the curtain-carrying arm 20 for therequisite distance. The end of the rack 28 terminates in a rod 31, whichpasses through a keeper 32, and just before this rod reaches the limitof its downward mo vement itstrikes a switch or cut-out plate 33, whichcuts off the current from the electric motor and automatically sto psthe operation of the apparatus.

34 represents an electric push-louttoncon-l These arms reciprocate withit.

nection comprising a spring-plate 34, havinga finger or knob 34b and apermanent contact-plate`34c, so that when the plate 34 is pushed intocontact with plate 34C current will pass and start the motor. At theoutset the rod 31 will be lifted from the switch 33, and this will closewith the plate 33 and close the circuit, and the apparatus willconl"tinue to operate until the rod 31 again breaks the current.

35 35 represent binding-posts, to which the elements of the battery areconnected. 35 is connected to one pole of the motor by a wire 36, while35 is connected to the other pole by a wire 37, switch 33, and wire 38.The push-button is putin circuit when switch 33 is open by the wire 37,leading from switch to plate 34C,y and wire 40, leading from plate 34ato the plate 33a, and thereby connected to the above-mentioned wire 38.

As above mentioned, the arms 20 2O are rigidly connected to the shaft 14and operate The opposite movetnent of the carriers 16 is taken from thesaid shaft 14 by means of the gear-wheel 41, fast on the shaft 15, thegear-wheel 42, loose on the shaft 14, the small gear-wheel 43, fast onthe shaft 14, and the pawl 54, pivoted to the gear-wheel 42 in positionto engage with the teeth of the gear-wheel 43-that is, wheel 43 and pawl44 constitute a clutch, so that when the arms 20 2O are descending thegear-wheel 53 through pawl 54, will turn the gear-wheel 42 in thedirection of the arrow, Fig. 7, and rotate the gear-wheel 41 and shaft15 in the opposite direction. When the arms 20 approach the limit oftheir return sweep, they operate the retaining and separating devices13, so that the front curtain-rod is moved out from the rest,and at thistime the ends of the arms 2O 20, being sufficiently beveled at the endsfor the purpose, spring past or engage the same, ready to carry the rodup over the drum, causing the iinger 45 to be lifted clear of theadjacent curtain-rod and the finger 46 to be thrust down between the twofirst curtainrods, thus separating out the first curtainrod from therest and at the same time holding back the others. The outer ends of thearms 2O by spring action Hip past the ends of the curtain-rodseparately, as above described, or otherwise engage with said rod, readyso that whenthe button is pressed the arms will carry the rod and itsattached curtain W, on which the sign or other matter is printed orattached, up over the drum or up into position between the carriers 16and weight-rollers 18, which in their operation will carry the curtainfully over the drum.

Various' separating-and retaining' devices for the curtain-rods may beemployed; but I prefer to use for each complete device a walking-beam43, pivoted at 44, and provided each side of the pivot with fingers 4546, which project down through holes in the flange 7. A spring v47normally holds the walking-beam 43 in the position shown in Fig.

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6Lhat is, with its inner end elevated so that the finger 45 ,ivlill'bethrust down so as to retain. the curtain-rods Vand-,at the same ltimeyhold the finger 46 elevated above thecurtainfA rods. A stud 48 on each'of-'the arms V20fis ,arranged to strike upon the spring 47 andtodepress the saine," as illustratedjin [1`ig.7,

whereupon the inner end ofthe Walking-beam 43 Will'be depressed, causingfinger 45 to clear away for the'irst' curtain-'rod andcausing" finger 46to be thr'ustdown between the first and second curtainhrods, asillustrated inFig.'

7. At this 'time arms 20 Will flip'back of or t otherwiseengage thefirst curtainuod, and as soon as the button is pressed theyv vWill carrythe same, with its curtain up, over the drum and allow signingsv 4710reset the retaining and separating devices 13 back to. thepo'sition'shown in Figf. In order to allow the curtain-rods and their curtains tobe readily' removed from and replaced upon the drum 8, I

form in one end ofthe latter a slot 48C, as shown clearly in Fig. 8. Y

In lthe forni of construction shownin I Pigs.v

l) and 10 the motor 21 is electrically connected to a reversing-'switch50, which is operated by an'arin 51 on the shaft 141 and a slidingcurved `rod 52 in the path'of said arm and brush 65 of the motor 21.

o nects with the coil 72 of the motor 21.

Vplates 69 and 70 are Vconnected to a Wire 73,

connectedto the 'switch 50, so that the nuo-Yy tor 21 and the train ofgearing 22 areat the proper'tiine reversed in theirdirection ofrotation, thus'rotari'ly reciprocating the arms20 directly from and 'byreversingthe motor.- Withlthis larrangement the Wheels l41, 42, and 53and the 'pawl 54 are' used as before and for the same purpose.. Theelectric bat' tery is connected to the binding-posts 55 and 5G. The post55 is connected-by wire57 to the arm 5S of thefswitch 50. The post56 islconnected by wire 59 to the ange 6 or to any other part of the apparatuswhich willcarry the current to the arm 51.v The sWitch-.

ann 58 is yoked to the switch-arm 60 Vby a hard -rubber plate `61. Thishard-rubber plate is provided witha finger 62, which is connected to thesliding lrod 52, held loosely in the bearings 6363. The switch-arm 60 isby Wire 64 connected to the commutator- The heads of the screws 66 66,which connect the hard-rubber plate 61 to the switch-arms 5S 60, serveasy contact-points to four reversing-plates 67, 68, 69, and 70,7Whichconstitute vthe stationary portion of the switch 50. Plates 67 and 7-0are both connected to a wire 71, which con- The ' which is connected toa binding-post 74 of brush 79 ofthe motor.

- connected to the segment-plate by remov-l able metal plugs 81. Byremoving some of ther motor 21. A segment-plate-75'is con-` nected by awire 76.130 another binding-post V77 ot the motor,which,bindingfpost isconnected by a wire 78v to the other commutator- The segment-'plate 75is surrounded by a series of spaced con.- tact-plates 80 80, some or allof which are motor and the Whole apparatus.

eeen-vt j Y t Y y these plugs the apparatus may be regulated to runslow, and by inserting thein ingreaterrnumbers the apparatus may be runat` a greater speed, so that the apparatusl may be regulated as Well tothe power of the battery.) lIf the battery is strong, remove` some ,ofVthe plugs 81 and if Weak insert some or all of them. When a number ofthe plugs are removed, the momentum of the apparatus Willcar'ry the arm51, 1which rubs against the plates 8O,l

past those plates which are cut out bythe removal of the said plugs.`The two rstplates of the series S0( marked 80a 80a) are' connected to aplate S2, Which by a Wire 85 is connected to ay starting springswitchplate 84, (see Fig.

2,) which stands in line with another spring 'switch-plate 85, which maybe pressed Yinto contact with plate S1 by a push-button S6.

Theplate 85 is by a wireS7 connected to thev wire 76, so that when' thebuttonS is pressed the current will flow and start the motor and theentire apparatus. The arm 51 is in a plane with the arms 20, and theVst'artingt-point will be that shown-iu dotted lines in Fig. 7.

When in vthis starting position, the arm 51' will have struck thecurved'sWitch-rod 52 andr shoved the arms 58 60 into contact withswitchplates G7 69, which are the cut-out plates, so thatV in thisposition no current hows to the motor. Now on'pushing the button 86 themotor is started. Y The current passes from post 55 through'wire 57andarm 5S of 'the f switch to one of the middle plates 68 or 69,

thence through Wire 73, post 74 of the motor, and coil 72, and throughWire 71 to the outside plates (Wandl 70 of the switch, thence througharm 60, `Wire vtit, binding-post 65 ofthe motor, thence through postl79,l wire 78, post 77, and Wire Y6-to p1a-te`75, thence through thevapparatus to Wire 59 to the opposite binding-post 56, and the apparatusWill continue in its forward movement until the armv 51 strikes the end52 of the switch-rod 52 and vshovesit back, setting the switch-arms 5860 over onto theplatcs 68 70, thus reversing the In the reyerseymovement the currentrtlows along Wire 57, arm 58, to the outside platesof the switch 67 70, through wire 71 to coil 72 of the motor, tobinding-post 74, Wire 73, to inside plates IIO 68 69 ofthe switch,thence to arm 60 of the switch, thence through Wire 64, post 65, post79, Wire 7S, post 77, Wire 76, to plate 75, and thencel through theapparatus to wire 59 to the opposite post 56. When arm 51 rests onVeither vof the two plates 8Oa 80", which are not Verse movement willcontinue until the arm 5l strikes the opposite end 52b of the curved rod52 and shoves it back, thus returning` the switch-arms 5S 60 to thecut-out plates 67 69,

whereupon the apparatus will come to rest until the button S6 is againpressed, when the operation is again repeated.

SS represents an electromagnet, and S9 an armature therefor attached toa bent pushframe 90, the upper horizontal end of which is arranged toengage with the teeth of one of the gear-wheels in the train 22, so thatin case the motor should at any time stand on the dead-center it wouldbe started by throwing the magnet 88 into circuit. The throwing of theelectromagnet S8 into circuit is accomplished by pressing the button 86sufficiently to force the plate 91, whichis in front of plate 85, intocontact with the metal keeper 92. The `Vbattery for the -magnet S8 isconnected to binding-posts 93 94, Fig. 10, the post 93 being connectedto the plate 91 by Wire 95, the post 94: being connected to one pole ofthe magnet by wire 96, the other pole of the battery being connected bywire 97 to the said metal keeper 92.

I do not limit myself to an intermittently.

frame, a series of curtain-rods held to slide said support, gearingattached to said frame,

a rack reciprocated by said gearing, a shaft journaled in said supportgeared to said rack and arms operated by said shaft for sliding ythecurtain-rods on said support and auxiliary carriers geared to saidshaft, substantially as described.

3. In an advertisingapparatns,a drn m,a series of curtain-rods adaptedto slide around said drum, a shaft journaled in said drum, arms attachedto said shaft for carrying the curtain-rods partially around the drum, acarrier located atthe top of said drum, and gearing, substantially asdescribed, for rotating said carrier toward the back of the drum Whilethe said arms move in the opposite di- IRA MACFARLAND.

Ti tnesses:

T. S. BUcK, H. ALBERTUS WEST.

